The thing that got to me about this book (and the way it's written) is that when I'd finished it, the whole thing came off like some weird fever dream. I say that in a good way. It stuck with me for months after I read it. I think his punctuation style definitely added to that experience for me with this book.

Bradbury was the first author I fell in love with, and this book, particularly The Veldt were some of my earliest reading memories.

Bradbury has always been hit or miss with me and for every book of his I love there is another that disappoints me, this is particularly true of his short story collections. I loved The Veldt, The Other Foot, The Man and The Exiles but the rest were okay to average.

_________________God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8

Agreed, JC. Cary's strength here is in the characters, which is way more important than situations and ideas. They're all really well developed, so that by the time all hell begins to break loose you actually care about them.

I've read a good bit of self-pubbed fiction and almost none of it has been worthy of being on the shelves by a legit publisher.

Agreed, JC. Cary's strength here is in the characters, which is way more important than situations and ideas. They're all really well developed, so that by the time all hell begins to break loose you actually care about them.

I've read a good bit of self-pubbed fiction and almost none of it has been worthy of being on the shelves by a legit publisher.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be "replaced" by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.- George Lucas 1988

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